Plus, the whole point of a signature is that it's easily reproducible by you, but not by other people.

Fast and fluid in a way that feels good to your hand is therefore the best signature, whereas something written slowly and precisely is easier to copy.

Not if you cross your fingers and say "no take-backsies"

Not quite the same thing, but years ago I was a developer working on an app for Clerks of Court in the one state that doesn't share the same legal basis as the other 49 states (should make it easy to guess which state). One day I got assigned a bug ticket that said the "State" dropdown in the app had 519 entries. This was of course a few too many, so I took a look at the STATES table in the database, which as expected contained the two-letter abbreviations for all 50 states but then a whole bunch of other shit after than, including all the states fully spelled out and often misspelled many times as well (there were more than 20 different spellings of Louisiana, for example), and then a bunch of country names.

It turned out that one of my coworkers had been assigned the task of including the state's standard marriage license form in the application. This form had sections labeled "State" for the bride and groom, but since the victims (or whatever people getting married are called legally) were often from out of state or even from other countries, clerks would just write in whatever in this part of the form. My coworker was a fanatic about normalized databases, so rather than just allowing these fields to be plain text, he foreign-keyed them into the pre-existing STATES table and added code that added new entries to this table whenever users typed something new into the fields. It never once occurred to him that this table might have been utilized in other parts of the app.

How this table grew to 519 rows before anyone logged a complaint about it is beyond me.

CuteBunny93 has been using email for 20 years, isn't that a point in their favor?

sorry wrong comment / reply originally but yeah that probably hurts to look back on.

Same but not nearly as impressive with only like 20 years

there's some kind of dispute and then someone asks you "is this your signature" and you say yes. Crisis over.

"(…)by signing this document, you are also acknowledging that Apple may sew your mouth to the butthole of another iTunes user. Apple and its subsidiaries may also, if necessary, sew yet another person's mouth onto your butthole, making you a being that shares one gastral tract."

They are if you vote by mail. All ballots have the signature matched to the one on your driver's license.

I mean it just needs to be unique. Otherwise what's stopping someone else from pretending to be you (if they got control of some other credentials) or weaseling out of something you did in fact sign for.

To quote Mr burns "you can't all sign with an x".

At one point mine was barely legible cursive. Now it's a bunch of squiggly lines that barely even resembles cursive at all.

I used to sign my name in cursive, but its legibility as actual letters disappeared over the same time span as my forgetting how to write cursive altogether. Now it vaguely resembles a capital K followed by a bunch of random shit. It does at least look pretty much the same every time.

Write name, but sloppily. My brain will always be lazy in the same way, so the signature just ends up looking approximately the same every time. So basically, lots of squigglies too, but I'll get the ascenders and descenders.

There's also the problem of then having to live in a dysfunctional conservative shit hole.

And the restaurant thing is 100% true. The food alone would be enough for me to be a proponent of multiculturalism lol. Even if there were no other benefits (there are tons). Give me all of the ethnicities' foods plz.

Old people without kids in school move to cheap areas and then fight to keep the taxes low so they don’t have to pay for services they don’t want. Nothing worse than being gentrified by the old